Monica Rodriguez

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Education

POMONA >> After collecting comments on trustee area voting and residents’ preference for five or seven area options, the Pomona Unified School District board of education will select an option Tuesday night.District administrators will present the school board’s recommended option to the Los Angeles County Committee on School District Organization when it meets at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the board room of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, 9300 Imperial...

Religious education

POMONA >> With prayer as the theme, Pomona Pastors in Prayer kicked off the three-night Pomona Bible Conference Wednesday. Members of congregations across Pomona gathered at Lincoln Avenue Community Church for the conference designed to bring people together and continue building unity to create a better Pomona.“Ultimately our goal is, by strengthening the church and creating unity that the presence of God would be more pronounced in this city and there will be a...

Driving under the influence

LOS ANGELES >> A Fontana woman suspected of killing six people in a wrong way, DUI-related crash on the 60 Freeway last year was arraigned here Wednesday.Olivia Carolee Culbreath pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. She is expected to return to court March 10.In January, a Superior Court...

Voting districts

DIAMOND BAR >> With few exceptions, most of the residents of the Pomona Unified School District who gathered Tuesday night in the gym at Diamond Ranch High School said they would prefer to keep the current system of electing school board members.About 30 people — half of them parents or residents of the Pomona Unified School District...

Education

POMONA >> School district voters could go to the polls in November to elect two school board members using the trustee area voting system.Pomona Unified school board members this week approved a resolution authorizing a change from the current at-large voting system to having trustee areas. Several steps must still be taken but “literally all of...

Education

POMONA>> Voters could be electing school board members by trustee areas as early as this fall. The Pomona Unified school board decided Wednesday night on a 4-1 vote, with Frank Guzman opposed, to authorize going from an at-large voting system to a trustee area system of electing school board members.School board members took up the topic of trustee area and at-large voting models after

Education

POMONA >> Jack Dotts knew a time capsule was buried in a wall of the Arroyo Elementary School cafeteria, but he didn’t remember what was inside. Tuesday morning, Dotts found out. Dotts, a 1956 graduate of the school, stood in front of a table on the Arroyo playground where the metal box sat. Surrounding Dotts where six Arroyo alumni, Pomona Unified School District and Arroyo administrators, the Ganesha High School band and cheerleaders and the 630-member Arroyo...

Local governments

POMONA>> City Council members voted this week to let stand a Planning Commission decision denying a conditional use permit for an electronic waste collection and transfer facility. Council members voted 4-3 on Monday not to hold an appeal hearing. Councilmembers John Nolte, Cristina Carrizosa, Debra Martin and Mayor Elliott Rothman voted in favor of allowing the Planning Commission’s decision to stand while Adriana Robledo, Paula Lantz and Ginna Escobar voted the opposing...